Love and Theft‘s Stephen Barker Liles is off the market. According to People, Stephen got engaged to fiancée Jenna Michelle Kennedy Tuesday night on the beach in Fort Myers, FL. He had a friend set up cameras on the beach outside the city’s Fresh Catch Bistro, where the couple planned to eat that night.

Stephen says, “I called ahead and told them…to say that the table wouldn’t be ready for 30 minutes so that we had to kill some time and walk on the beach.”

That’s when Stephen says he begged Jenna to marry him, and she said yes. They both cried as he slipped the 2.34 carat yellow center cut diamond ring on her finger.

The couple plans to get married in May 2014. Stephen says of Jenna, “She is my best friend and I am so grateful for the Lord bringing her into my life.”